Benjamin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I turn on direct rendering in opensuse 11.0? I'm using an
> NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M.

If you have Xinerama enabled, disable it.

Turns out that I simply needed to add the NVIDIA repository to yast2,
it automatically selected the drivers and updated. Follow the
directions here:
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-...ler-HOWTO.html




On Jul 28, 2:58*pm, Benjamin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I turn on direct rendering in opensuse 11.0? * I'm using an
> NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M.
>
> glxinfo shows (sorry, had to type this in, i think this is most of the
> relevant information):
>
> direct rendering: no
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.2
> client glx vendor string: SGI
> client glx version string: 1.4
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3)
> glu version: 1.3
>
> hwinfo correctly identifies the card.
>
> The machine is a Dell Precision M6300 laptop.
> I'm using KDE 3.5x and the kernel version is 2.65.6-1.1-default x86_64
>
> Thanks for your advice (assume that I haven't tried something that may
> seem "basic").
> I'm used to using Fedora, so I may simply be missing some
> configuration tool that allows me to switch things on and off.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ben